Commander Kevin Ford leads Expedition 34 as the six-member crew conducts science and research that cannot be performed on Earth. Ford and the other five crew members Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin, Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn, discuss the challenges and opportunites of living and working in space. Expedition 34/35 expects visits from a Russian and European cargo vehicle as well as two commercial cargo craft vehicles, the SpaceX Dragon and Orbital Sciences' Cygnus.